pneumatic

Definitions

adjpneumaticof or relating to or using air (or a similar gas)"pneumatic drill","pneumatic tire"

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.

nPneumaticA vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires.

PneumaticAdapted for containing compressed air; inflated with air; as, a pneumatic cushion; a pneumatic tire, a tire formed of an annular tube of flexible fabric, as India rubber, suitable for being inflated with air.

PneumaticConsisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid."The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body."

PneumaticMoved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.

PneumaticOf or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments."Pneumatical discoveries."

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

pneumaticOf or pertaining to air, or gases in general, or their properties; also, employing (compressed) air or other gas as a motive power, as, pneumatic experiments; a pneumatic engine. Pneumatic notes numerous instruments, machines, apparatus, etc., for experimenting on elastic fluids, or for working by means of the compression or exhaustion of air.

pneumaticConsisting of or resembling air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous.

pneumaticMoved or played by means of air: as, a pneumatic instrument of music.

pneumaticIn zoology: Filled with air; fitted to receive or contain air; pneumatized, as the air-cells or the bones of birds

pneumaticOf or pertaining to the respiratory system of any animal

pneumaticA caisson within which compressed air excludes the water, permitting necessary operations to be carried on inside it.

npneumaticIn organ-building, one of the members of a pneumatic action, whether a bellows or a tube. See pneumatic action, above.

npneumaticSame as pneumatology, 2, where see quotation.

pneumaticIn theology, relating to the spirit or pneuma, as distinguished from both soul and body; spiritual. See soul and spirit.

npneumaticAn inflatable rubber tire.

npneumaticA vehicle, as a bicycle, motor-cycle, or motorcar, lifted with inflatable rubber tires.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

adjPneumaticnū-mat′ik relating to air: consisting of air: moved by air or wind

In science:

The camera, mounted on a pneumatic table to avoid vibrations, was cooled down to its nominal cryogenic temperature of 70 mK and electromagnetically shielded to avoid magnetic ﬁeld interferences in the MKIDs as well as spill-over radiation from the laboratory ﬂoor and walls.

Electronics and data acquisition demonstrator for a kinetic inductance camera

The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

Origin of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in dinosaurs.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

Pneumaticity, neck length, and body size in sauropods.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

Pneumaticity, neck length, and body size in sauropods.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

Origin of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in dinosaurs.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

What pneumaticity tells us about 'prosauropods', and vice versa.

Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs

MYT07] Mythbusters television show, The Discovery Channel (2007). These guys use pneumatic devices to launch all sorts of projectiles over a wide range of velocities.

A method for testing bullets at reduced velocity

In spite of these caveats, the approach of using reduced muzzleloader charges compares quite favorably with the alternative of using unrifled pneumatic devices [WWZ04, MTY07], which are usually unrifled and unable to fire bullets which maintaining proper orientation in flight.

A method for testing bullets at reduced velocity

Enriched 235U was irradiated in an MTR pneumatic rabbit facility of the Atomic Energy Division of the Phillips Petroleum Company at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Discovery of the Barium Isotopes

The pressure difference across the convex entrance window to the helium cell is kept at 0 psid by pneumatic relay R11, and monitored by pressure gauge P8.

A High Power Hydrogen Target for Parity Violation Experiments

When the loop is full of liquid, the hydrogen supply is closed and the operating pressure is maintained by the large volume of hydrogen in the ballast tank, through pneumatic valve PV12.

A High Power Hydrogen Target for Parity Violation Experiments

The neutron injection from the neutron guide into the magnetic ring was performed with the help of fast pneumatically driven neutron mirror reﬂector.